Thermal-fluid-structure coupling analysis on plate-type fuel assembly under irradiation. Part-II Mechanical deformation and thermal-hydraulic characteristics

Autor: Yuanming Li, Quan-yao Ren, Pan Yuan, Guanghui Su, Hongxing Yu, Meiyin Zheng, Haoyu Wang, Yingwei Wu, Shurong Ding
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol 53, Iss 5, Pp 1556-1568 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1738-5733
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2020.11.031
Popis: The plate-type fuel assembly adopted in nuclear research reactor suffers from complicated effect induced by non-uniform irradiation, which might affect stress conditions, mechanical behaviors and thermal-hydraulic performance of the fuel assembly. This paper is the Part II work of a two-part study devoted to analyzing the complex unique mechanical deformation and thermal-hydraulic characteristics for the typical plate-type fuel assembly under irradiation effect, which is on the basis of developed and verified numerical thermal-fluid-structure coupling methodology under irradiation in Part I of this work. The mechanical deformation, thermal-hydraulic performance and Mises stress have been analyzed for the typical plate-type fuel assembly consisting of support plates under non-uniform irradiation. It was interesting to observe that: the plate-type fuel assembly including the fuel plates and support plates tended to bend towards the location with maximum fission rate; the hot spots in the fuel foil appeared at the location with maximum thickness increment; the maximum Mises stress of fuel foil was located at the adjacent location with the maximum plate thickness increment et al.
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